Short v. Board of Managers

OPINION OF THE COURT

Jones, J.

The statutory authority to delete identifying details as a means to remove records from what would otherwise be an exception to the disclosure mandated by the Freedom of Information Law extends only to records whose disclosure without deletion would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, and does not extend to records excepted in consequence of specific exemption from disclosure by State or Federal statute. Disclosure of the 29 medical records sought by petitioner, as well as of the interagency memorandum, except as to statistical or factual…